SPRINGTIME FOR XANADU

INTERESTING ARTICLE FROM NEW YORK MAG ON THE NEW MUSICAL:



Can the famously nonsensical disco-movie flop make it on Broadway? By Michael Martin

As a film, the 1980 Olivia Newton-John roller-disco fable Xanadu was the epic failure to end all epic failures—for a few years, anyway, until Ishtar. It flummoxed the Times reviewer, who complained, “Too many different things are going on here, and they don’t have much to do with one another,” before dismissing it as a “desperately stylish” movie “best watched with your eyes closed.” It was nominated for six Razzies that year—its director won one—and inspired reviews such as the one-word “Xana-don’t!”

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